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2008 Certificate 15
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Terminal Island: The very near future. The world's hunger for extreme sports and reality competitions has grown into reality TV bloodlust. Now, the most extreme racing competition has emerged and its contestants are murderous prisoners. Tricked-out cars, caged thugs and smoking-hot navigators combine to create a juggernaut .. Read more

Starring Jason Statham, Tyrese Gibson, Natalie Martinez, Ian McShane
Director Paul W.S. Anderson
Genres Action/Adventure, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Thriller

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Death Race

Terminal Island: The very near future. The world's hunger for extreme sports and reality competitions has grown into reality TV bloodlust. Now, the most extreme racing competition has emerged and its contestants are murderous prisoners. Tricked-out cars, caged thugs and smoking-hot navigators combine to create a juggernaut series with bigger ratings than the Super Bowl. The rules of the Death Race are simple: Win five events, and you're set free. Lose and you're road kill splashed across the Internet. Three-time speedway champion Jensen Ames is an ex-con framed for a gruesome murder. Forced to don the mask of the mythical driver Frankenstein, a Death Race crowd favorite who seems impossible to kill, Ames is given an easy choice by Terminal Island's ruthless Warden Hennessey: Suit up and drive or never see his little girl again. His face hidden by a hideous mask, one convict will enter an insane three-day challenge in order to gain freedom. But to claim the prize, Ames must survive a gauntlet of the most vicious criminals--including nemesis Machine Gun Joe--in the country's toughest prison. Trained by his coach to drive a monster Mustang V8 Fastback outfitted with two mounted mini-guns, flamethrowers and napalm, an innocent man will destroy everything in his path to win the most twisted spectator sport on Earth.

Starring Jason Statham, Tyrese Gibson, Natalie Martinez, Ian McShane, Joan Allen, Robin Shou, Jacob Vargas, Robert LaSardo, Max Ryan, Frederick Koehler
Director Paul W.S. Anderson
Studio UNIVERSAL PICTURES UK
Run time DVD: 1 hr 46 mins
Blu-ray: 1 hr 45 mins
Certificate Certificate 15
Collections 100 Hot Hits, 100 Most Wanted
Genres Action/Adventure, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Thriller
Language DVD: English
Blu-ray: English
Released DVD: 02 Feb 2009
Blu-ray: 02 Feb 2009
Production year: 2008
Format DVD

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  • Since all Paul WS Andersons films (Resident Evil, AVP etc.) are video-game-inflected compendia of his... read more on Time Out

    • Nigel Floyd, 
    • Time Out
    • Posted 04 Nov 2008

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  • 119 out of 124 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 1 star [Highly rated reviewer]

    Death Faece

    This is the cinematic equivalent of staring at a fruit machine for two hours.

    It is also almost impossible to critique. It follows a pretty rank formula; a scene or two of hackneyed, pungent gorgonzola takes place off the track, followed by a sequence of headache-inducing eye-screwery taking place on it. And Repeat. Repeat. REPEAT.

    Those race sequences really do represent a new low for contemporary Hollywood moviemaking. When shots aren't cut into spastic, nonsensical visual slaps that last less than a second, the camera is quaking violently and zooming in and out furiously, as if being controlled by a well-caffeinated mute, trying desperately to let the director on the other end of the monitor know that his testicles have just caught fire.

    At one point, following what appears to have been a gigantic car accident, Joan Allen (Joan Allen!) turns to a colleague and bellows, 'What the hell just happened!?'

    You tell me, luv.

      • Al80 from Brighton, England
      • Posted 29 Sep 2008 05:57

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  • 5 out of 5 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 3 stars [Highly rated reviewer]

    Outdoes the original...

    Ok, so the original Death Race 2000 with David Carradine and a then unknown Sylvester Stallone was a typical '70s low budget Corman 'flick and didnt take much beating-but as high octane hokum with a modicum of a plot, this 'remake' works well. Not one to impress the new girl in your life, it wont show your sensitive side, or your love of fine cinema but its not a bad way to spent an hour or two. Good to see British actors not playing fops or psychopaths too!

      • JulianDF from Monmouth
      • Posted 03 Apr 2009 17:11

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